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Lex Fridman· Sep 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersShepherds Already Knew: Ed Barnhart on the Americas Before 1492Guest Ed Barnhart · Host Lex FridmanAn archaeologist walks Lex Fridman from lost Amazon cities and Peru's older-than-Egypt pyramids through Maya timekeeping, Aztec sacrifice, Inca empire-building, and the continent the textbooks still treat as empty.
2:40:25ENLex Fridman· Sep 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThree Out of Four Federal Bureaucrats Should Go Home, Vivek Ramaswamy SaysGuest Vivek Ramaswamy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the biotech founder and former Republican presidential candidate argues for a 75 percent cut in the federal workforce, a creedal American identity, and a Ukraine deal aimed at peeling Russia away from China.
3:31:57ENLex Fridman· Sep 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Man-Made Famine, Packaged as the Science of HistoryGuest Vejas Liulevicius · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Vejas Liulevicius walks Lex Fridman from Marx to Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Putin — arguing that a doctrine which claimed scientific certainty made mass death feel like a duty.
3:42:21ENLex Fridman· Sep 12, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRome Always Raised Another ArmyGuest Gregory Aldrete · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Gregory Aldrete tells Lex Fridman how a city of mud huts absorbed the Mediterranean, survived Hannibal, and then tore itself apart over the spoils.
4:10:28ENLex Fridman· Aug 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersNinety-eight percent of American politics is the moneyGuest Cenk Uygur · Host Lex FridmanCenk Uygur tells Lex Fridman that corporatism, not left versus right, is the system that actually runs Washington — and that the only way out is to starve it of private cash.
3:43:34ENLex Fridman· Aug 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAt 27, Pieter Levels Stared at a Hotel Ceiling. Then He Shipped Twelve Startups in a YearGuest Pieter Levels · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the indie hacker behind Photo AI, Nomad List, and Remote OK about viral AI products, digital-nomad loneliness, and why he still deploys PHP to production from a sofa.
2:12:04ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersCraig Jones Drove a Bag of Cash to Rogan — Then Put $2 Million on a Jiu-Jitsu MatGuest Craig Jones · Host Lex FridmanThe Australian grappler tells Lex Fridman how a Kazakhstan horse pit led to Ukraine, FPV drones, coral-belt trolling, and a tournament scheduled against ADCC.
8:37:34ENLex Fridman· Aug 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe first Neuralink patient beat a world record with most of his electrodes goneGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Elon Musk, the Neuralink team, and Noland Arbaugh about a wireless brain implant, the software that rescued it, and why bandwidth is Musk’s bet on living with AI.
2:46:20ENLex Fridman· Jul 21, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJordan Jonas Won Alone Season 6 Without Losing a PoundGuest Jordan Jonas · Host Lex FridmanThe survivalist tells Lex Fridman how a moose, a wolverine, freight trains, and a year with Evenki herders taught him to hunt, to wait, and to stay a candle when the woods go quiet.
3:04:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWalk the Rooms: Ivanka Trump on Building, Politics, and the Cost of Hitting SendGuest Ivanka Trump · Host Lex FridmanIn 1960s Czechoslovakia, a 14-year-old ski racer came home from Austria and reported first to the local police — enough detail to be believed, not enough to look like a flight risk.
1:47:18ENLex Fridman· Jun 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Cannabis Clip Sat Quiet for a Year. Then It Hit X.Guest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanAndrew Huberman talks with Lex Fridman about online pile-ons, still minds, sharks, ayahuasca, and the slow work of picking who you eat with.
3:02:16ENLex Fridman· Jun 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe journey begins after the answer: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on search and curiosityGuest Aravind Srinivas · Host Lex FridmanIn 2022, Perplexity's first hire asked about health insurance — and four PhDs could not get a clear answer from Google.
2:51:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSara Walker: Life Is Huge in Time, Not in SpaceGuest Sara Walker · Host Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why textbook definitions of life fail, how assembly theory measures complexity, and why aliens might disappear into their own causal structure.
2:19:08ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHe Asked to Vanish from the Poster. The Second Time, Hollywood Did It for HimGuest Kevin Spacey · Host Lex FridmanKevin Spacey talks with Lex Fridman about Se7en, American Beauty, House of Cards, the 2017 allegations, and a father whose study held a Nazi flag.
2:15:39ENLex Fridman· Jun 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRoman Yampolskiy Puts Superintelligent Ruin at 99.99 PercentGuest Roman Yampolskiy · Host Lex FridmanThe AI safety researcher tells Lex Fridman that controlling AGI is as impossible as a perpetual motion machine, and that tests, open source, and regulation cannot close the gap.
3:10:49ENLex Fridman· May 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersMemory Is Not a Replay: Charan Ranganath on Forgetting, Imagination, and False MemoriesGuest Charan Ranganath · Host Lex FridmanA UC Davis neuroscientist explains why the brain is a cheap prediction machine — and why forgetting is how memory works.
4:01:52ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersPaul Rosolie: The Amazon Is a Machine of Death, and Every Heartbeat in It Is Worth SavingGuest Paul Rosolie · Host Lex FridmanDeep in the Peruvian rainforest, the naturalist talks snakes, anacondas, uncontacted tribes, ayahuasca, and why he would rather protect this forest than look for aliens.
2:35:24ENLex Fridman· Apr 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Equation Was Smarter Than EinsteinGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanSean Carroll tells Lex Fridman why general relativity is the most beautiful theory in physics, and why its equation predicted black holes, gravitational waves, and the Big Bang before anyone, including Einstein, understood them.
2:27:51ENLex Fridman· Apr 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersNeil Adams Still Wakes in a Sweat From an Olympic Final He Cannot ReachGuest Neil Adams · Host Lex FridmanThe judo world champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist talks with Lex Fridman about Moscow, Los Angeles, the luxury of danger, and why a real champion is the one who does the right thing when they lose.
2:50:44ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Pirahã Have No Word for OneGuest Edward Gibson · Host Lex FridmanMIT psycholinguist Ted Gibson tells Lex Fridman why related words sit together, why language is not thought, and why large language models ace form while missing meaning.
2:51:59ENLex Fridman· Apr 13, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWhat's on Your Mind: Andrew Callaghan's Gonzo Tour of the American EdgeGuest Andrew Callaghan · Host Lex FridmanThe Channel 5 host tells Lex Fridman how a three-word question, a 70-day hitchhike, and a Molotov on Lake Street turned comedy bits into a beat at the margins.
2:43:13ENLex Fridman· Apr 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThirty-Three Minutes He Cannot RememberGuest Bassem Youssef · Host Lex FridmanComedian Bassem Youssef tells Lex Fridman why he walked into a Piers Morgan interview he expected to lose, and what Gaza, satire, and power look like from there.
1:50:42ENLex Fridman· Apr 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe List Never Became Routine: Tulsi Gabbard on War, Power, and the Six-Minute DecisionGuest Tulsi Gabbard · Host Lex FridmanA combat veteran and former congresswoman walks Lex Fridman through Iraq’s casualty lists, the military-industrial revolving door, Ukraine, a bill that is not about TikTok, and what a president must do in six minutes.
2:13:15ENLex Fridman· Mar 29, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHe Sold Garbage Bags at 12. The Pitch Hasn't Changed.Guest Mark Cuban · Host Lex FridmanMark Cuban tells Lex Fridman that selling is helping, a billion requires luck, DEI is not a mind virus, and drug prices stay high because three middlemen hide the math.Load moreShowing 24 of 527